By AFP team in Gaza with Louis Baudoin-Laarman and Marc JourdierEuropean countries ramped up pressure on Israel to abandon its intensified genocide in...

By AFPCash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some parents are now paying sc...

By AFPIsraeli government and opposition leaders condemned on Tuesday a left-wing politician, Yair Golan, after he said in a radio interview that "a sa...

By AFPMicrosoft on Monday said its cloud servers will now host Grok from Elon Musk's xAI, days after the chatbot went off the rails with talk of "whit...

By AFPLithuania lodged a complaint at the top UN court Monday seeking compensation from Belarus, including for a fence, over allegations Minsk has sen...

By AFP/Rouba El HusseiniPlans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists determin...

By AFPPolice in El Salvador arrested a prominent human rights lawyer and critic of President Nayib Bukele who helps imprisoned Venezuelan migrants dep...

By AFPThe World Health Organization's member states on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, after more than...

By AFPUS President Donald Trump signed a bill on Monday making it a federal crime to post "revenge porn" -- whether it is real or generated by artific...

By AFP/Matthew WALSHSwathes of northern and central China sweltered this week under record May heat, state media said Tuesday, with temperatures risin...

By AFP/Louis VAN BOXEL-WOOLFAt an undisclosed site in Germany's Bavaria state, pharmaceutical CEO Philip Schetter opens a 75-centimetre (30-inch) thic...

By AFPFrance is to build a high-security prison in the South American jungle for the most "dangerous" criminals, including drug kingpins, hardline Jus...

By AFP/Francoise KadriSince the inhabitants of Jemna in southern Tunisia wrested control of their 100-year-old palm grove from the state during the 20...

By AFP/Joy CHIANGNvidia boss Jensen Huang announced plans for Taiwan's first "AI supercomputer", as he showcased on Monday the company's latest advanc...

By AFP/Richard CARTERThe top United Nations court on Monday sided with Equatorial Guinea in a decades-long dispute with Gabon over three tiny islands...

By AFP/Brigitte DUSSEAUTalking trees powered by AI, drought-resistant crops and sweet potatoes sprouting among flowers -- the prestigious Chelsea Flow...

By AFP team in Gaza with Stuart WhiteIsrael said Monday it would "take control" of the whole of Gaza as it intensified attacks across the territory, w...

By AFP/Fiachra GibbonsAkinola Davies Jr -- who has made history by directing Nigeria's first ever film in competition at the Cannes film festival -- l...

By AFP/Nioucha ZAKAVATILasting peace in Syria depends on the country building a strong judicial system giving justice to the victims of all crimes com...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDNo corner of Earth is untouched. From Tibet to Antarctica, so-called "forever chemicals" have seeped into the blood of nearly every...

By AFPTens of thousands of people protested in Budapest Sunday against a planned law that would allow the government to sanction NGOs and media it dee...

By AFP/Amber WANGTaiwan will turn off its last nuclear reactor on Saturday, fuelling concerns over the self-ruled island's reliance on imported energy...

By AFP/Mutwakil Issa with Menna FaroukWhen a fighter from Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed into Aisha's family home in Khartoum...

By AFPA Saudi airline has resumed flights for Iranian hajj pilgrims to the kingdom for the first time in a decade, the latest sign of the warming ties...